Primordial Era: Innate gourd vine, self-dismemberment

One is the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Banner. Each of the twelve Ancestral Witches crafted one corresponding to themselves. Jiufeng alone mastered the Great Dao of the twelve Ancestral Witches, possessed twelve heads, and crafted twelve Capital Gods and Demons Banners. The Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Banners are inscribed with their bloodline inheritance array: the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Array.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches activated the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Banners to set up the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation and condensed the true body of Pangu. Although it could not greatly increase their and Pangu's true body's combat power, it could bear the pressure and backlash on their behalf. This allowed them to persist for a longer time and enabled Pangu's true body to deliver one or two more blows than three.

Using the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Banner that she crafted herself, Jiufeng could set up the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation by herself, raising her own combat power by a small realm, and she could also condense the true body of Pangu on her own.

However, even with the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Banner to help her share the pressure and backlash, setting up the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array on her own would be too much of a burden.

Before breaking through to the peak of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, if one were to condense the true form of Pangu and unleash a single attack, it would absolutely affect one's foundation or even lead to death and the annihilation of one's Dao.

Even if one breaks through to the peak of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and sets up the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Formation to condense the true body of Pangu, at most one can only unleash one attack, and it will certainly be far from comparable to the true body of Pangu condensed by the Twelve Ancestral Witches using the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Formation.

Secondly, each of the thirteen ancestral witches forged a weapon based on their own lifeblood, according to their own wishes.

Although Jiufeng didn't know whether Dijun and Taiyi would still use the vengeful souls of billions of humans to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword after the birth of the human race, or whether Yuanyan and the other six would tacitly allow Dijun and Taiyi to use billions of humans to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword, she was prepared to take precautions in advance.

If Di Jun and Tai Yi are unable to forge the Slaughtering Witch Sword, possessing a natal blood-forged battle weapon can more or less enhance their combat power.

However, if Di Jun and Tai Yi forged the Slaughtering Sword, then they would possess a natal blood-forged weapon, and when facing the Slaughtering Sword, they could use the natal blood-forged weapon to resist, instead of using their physical bodies to withstand it.

The Earthly Court, holding an absolute advantage, was actively preparing its trump cards for battle, and the Demon Clan, which was at a significant disadvantage, was naturally doing the same.

When the Earthly Court attacked the Celestial Court, Emperor Jun and Taiyi did not hesitate to burn their good and evil corpse bodies to save nearly half of the Celestial Court's powerful figures.

Subsequently, they easily persuaded the celestial court experts they had rescued to join the demon race.

However, this is not because Di Jun and Tai Yi possess unparalleled personal charisma that allows them to easily subdue and serve the powerful immortals they have rescued.

The reason why those powerful figures of the Celestial Court were willing to serve Emperor Jun and Taiyi and join the Demon Clan was because they had no other choice, and because there was still hope in the Demon Clan.

The reason they had no other choice was that after the collapse of the Celestial Court's fortune, the karmic consequences of the killings committed by the Celestial Court erupted completely and descended upon them through the karmic connections.

Burdened with a massive amount of karmic debt from killing, they are almost abandoned by the heavens, their cultivation level is difficult to improve, and they are even easily affected by the karmic debt from killing. They are very likely to be destroyed and fall into a killing calamity.

If they do not want their path to enlightenment to be severed, and if they do not want to die and perish at any time, they have no choice but to join the demon race, use the demon race's fortune to suppress the karmic burden of killing on their bodies, and use the demon race's fortune to cultivate.

The reason why the demon race still has hope and a chance to defeat the Earthly Court and dominate the primordial world is because of this.

This is because the demon race possesses thirty-three heavens. As long as they hide, the Earthly Court cannot find them or attack them, making them virtually invincible.

Di Jun has already created the Zhou Tian Star Array. If he can refine the Zhou Tian Star Banner and set up the Zhou Tian Star Array, he might be able to contend with the true form of Pangu formed by the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

The demon race also possesses the Hunyuan Heluo Grand Formation. As long as the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Grand Formation can contend with the true form of Pangu, the Earthly Court has no means to deal with the Hunyuan Heluo Grand Formation. The demon race can then contend with the Earthly Court, or even defeat it.

Having subdued the powerful Celestial Court warriors he had saved, Di Jun and Tai Yi were no longer in a hurry to refine the Zhou Tian Star Banner.

They first spent dozens of eons of time healing and recovering from their injuries before re-severing the good and evil corpses.

Subsequently, they had their good and evil corpse bodies work together to refine the Zhou Tian Star Banner, preparing to refine it into a half-step acquired treasure, or even an acquired treasure.

Before refining the Zhou Tian Star Banner into a half-step acquired treasure, or even an acquired treasure, they did not intend to confront the Earthly Court head-on.

Even if the Zhou Tian Star Banner, a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure, is used to set up the Zhou Tian Star Array, it is absolutely impossible for it to contend with the true body of Pangu, even if it contains forty-seven acquired divine restrictions.

Only by refining a half-step acquired treasure, or even an acquired treasure-level Zhou Tian Star Banner, and using it to set up the Zhou Tian Star Array, can one contend with the true body of Pangu.

As long as the Zhou Tian Star Array can contend with Pangu's true form and perish together with it, the demon race also has the Hunyuan Heluo Array, which will surely defeat the Earthly Court and even destroy it.

Because the strength of their cultivation level would affect the power of the Zhou Tian Star Array and the Hun Yuan He Luo Array, while their good and evil corpses were refining the Zhou Tian Star Banner, their true selves devoted most of their time and energy to cultivation, hoping that their cultivation level would not lag behind the thirteen Ancestral Witches.

At the same time, they did not forget to develop and strengthen the demon race.

Only by developing and strengthening the demon race, possessing a sufficient number of powerful individuals and a vast number of lower and middle-level demons, will they have enough power to set up the Hunyuan Heluo Grand Array and their envisioned Zhou Tian Xing Chen Grand Array.

In order to develop and strengthen the demon race, they sold the massive resources they had plundered in the Thirty-Three Heavens and the Southern Continent to the Yingzhou Merchant Guild and purchased a large number of resources and treasures that were useful to the demon race.

They dispatched their quasi-saints, primordial golden immortals, and even personally came forward to recruit powerful individuals who were dissatisfied with the Earthly Court Witch Clan, and to recruit powerful individuals who wanted to take a gamble and cultivate by taking advantage of their luck.

They selected a large number of outstanding Great Luo Golden Immortals/Taiyi Golden Immortals from the demon race and nurtured them with all their might. They aimed to cultivate at least 365 Great Luo Golden Immortals to perfection and 129,600 Taiyi Golden Immortals to perfection. They then coordinated with hundreds of millions of demon soldiers and generals to set up the Zhou Tian Star Array.

The goal is to cultivate as many Great Luo Golden Immortals and Great Yi Golden Immortals as possible, so that they can be replaced at any time in case of an accident. The aim is to cultivate these cultivators to a higher level. If a Quasi-Saint or Hunyuan Golden Immortal can wield the Main Star Banner and a Great Luo Golden Immortal can wield the Auxiliary Star Banner, then the Zhou Tian Star Array will surely unleash unparalleled power.

They would occasionally conceal the secrets of heaven, sending powerful demons to lead large armies down to the mortal realm to kill cultivators of the Earthly Court, disrupt its rule, and plunder resources and treasures.

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Although the demon race only occupies the thirty-third heaven, their fortune is far inferior to that of the Earthly Court.

However, there were too many powerful figures in the Earthly Court. The thirteen Ancestral Witches were all at the late stage of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, and the twenty God Kings were at least at the third level of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm. In addition, there were dozens of Quasi-Saints/Primordial Golden Immortals and thousands of Daluo Golden Immortals.